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Sigmund Freud3

longated and inefficient organ of a similar kind. These two points depend, of course, on point of view, but the ancient philosophers did obviously not take the female point of view into consideration. A vast amount of Aristotelian views are present in Freud’s beliefs. The biological "reasons" given by the ancient philosophers for specific social roles are somewhat incomplete. It seemed fairly logical for women to have the natural role of caring for children because she gives birth to them, but there was no biological explanation for the assumptions that women were less important as human beings, of lesser worth, naturally passive, or should be ruled by men. Simply because women give birth to babies, it has somehow been assumed that we are confined to roles as mothers and as caretakers. These conclusions were not drawn from biological observations, but from numerous western thinkers throughout history who made enormous mistakes in their reasoning about women. Freud was puzzled by members of the opposite sex and therefore did not attempt to logically study them and come up with objective theories regarding a woman’s psyche in general. He instead concentrated on the development of a woman’s mind up to adulthood at which point he could no longer understand it. "And now you are already prepared to hear that psychology too is unable to solve the riddle of femininity…In conformity with its peculiar nature, psycho-analysis does not try to describe what a woman is –that would be a task it could scarcely perform- but sets about inquiring how she comes into being, how a woman develops out of a child with a bisexual disposition." Sigmund Freud stated this in his book titled "Femininity" which was published in 1933. From an early age, Freud was critical of the feminist argument for equality between the sexes. He thought that it was "absurd" to think that a married woman could earn as much money as her husband, because h...

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